Cock-a-roaches

[*JG* 2]

We have the big roaches here they drive me nuts they even freak out my dog, but the cats do like to play them so i have to watch what type of stuff we use to kill em.

I go this recipy for the roaches for outside.

1 cup of Borax

1/4 cup of sugar

1/4 cup of chop onion

1 tbls cornstarch

1 tbls of water

the onion attracts them to the bait.

Make a paste roll into balls. Place 2-3 into a sandwich -bag leave the top open. Put the bags Where ever the roaches eat em go home and die other roaches eat them adn die too.

Just be sure to place them where pets and kids can't get to it, I us a simple baking soda and sugar mix in the house since its not toxic to kids and pets but deadly to roaches. baking soda makes a gas in the roaches and they cant get rid of it so they die from gas hahaha

Really? I may have to try this. I bought some stuff that worked well; but I was worried about my dog and cat the whole time.

[jedinite 0]

Borax is non-toxic. Even if your pet were to ingest it the worst it would do is get a stomach ache. In the days of the Romans borax was used as a preservative because it reduced bacteria and killed insects.

Just as a side-note and a bit of chemistry 101, mixing borax and baking soda solution probably won't be an extra potent bug killer because one is an acid and the other a base. Therefore they will probably end up neutralizing one another. Kind of like how sodium and chlorine are really dangerous on their own but when you mix them together you get something you need to live, salt. I have no idea what Borax and Baking Soda makes but I thought I'd point that out.

Edited September 15, 2008 by jedinite

[warlord 73]

Ok I've had enough experience with Cockaroaches (spelling I suck at). I lived in a house in Windsor that was horribly infested and have now just recently seen them here in colorado (but I took care of it).

Roaches are actually very clean insects and will actually clean themselves after contact with anything including humans (we're the dirty ones to them). A female egg carries between 8-16 babies. If you see one roach yes, you will generally see others (but no not thousands).

The German roach is the most common with the males being kind of small and round and the females more long. If you only have a small few and they're located in only one spot in the house (say kitchen) you can get traps from the grocery stores that will eliminate them. This is what I recently did and took care of the problem. The traps have poison that the roachs will bring back to the females and kill them.

Now if you lived in the house I lived in Canada, then that won't solve the problems. When late at night you turn on the kitchen light and the wall is moving, then you have a serious infestation. We had that place sprayed 4 times and it still didn't do the job. Roaches are very resilliant.

I solved the problem by (not suggested) by taking a spray bottle and going into the closet where the old residents kept many bottles of weird unmarked cleaning liquids and mixing a few together. Then sprayed the kitchen and living rooms. When the bottle was empty, I'd change the next batch with different mixtures so that there never was the same concoction in the spray bottle to get immune to.

That did the trick and exterminated the last of the roaches in that house and it was roach free for about a year before I moved away (and weird the house burnt down a few years later). Only problem with my method was that I was almost on the verge of exterminating myself and roomates, the fish and the cats too with the toxic sprays I made.

But yeah, roaches are very common and you will often see them in very clean environments against popular myth that they like dirty places. They're social and are highly intelligent and can make great pets (yeah that was interesting to read), but hey.

So try out the traps and if that's not working get an exterminator...

[Sprailenes 47]

omg I lived in a roach infested apartment in Toronto once! It was NASTY! I mean nasty! One time a smaller roach crawled inside my ear and the sound of that will ALWAYS haunt me. I went to the doctor the next day and she got it out and it was very small but it was so rank!

They are nasty! And you're lucky that you only have seen a few, my apartment was INFESTED, like tons! I'd buy a jug of roach killer every week and my bff was the Orkin man and even he couldn't get rid of them because it was in a building. You'd hear them clicking at night and I'd sleep with the light on, and if I opened a drawer to get something, you'd see them all scurry around. Ewww!

I gots the heebie jeebies.

[jundp 191]

I can't believe that I read this. OMG. I am terrified of roaches. Because, like Stacey said, the ones in New Orleans are huge. Oh, and they fly. Really really really freaking nasty disgusting. Ugh. Blech.

[Emancipation 2]

Okay.. so i cleaned the apartment from TOP to bottom tonite. Hubby kept asking me "what's gotten into you".. This freaking THREAD that's what!!!!!!!!

omg I lived in a roach infested apartment in Toronto once! It was NASTY! I mean nasty! One time a smaller roach crawled inside my ear and the sound of that will ALWAYS haunt me. I went to the doctor the next day and she got it out and it was very small but it was so rank!

They are nasty! And you're lucky that you only have seen a few, my apartment was INFESTED, like tons! I'd buy a jug of roach killer every week and my bff was the Orkin man and even he couldn't get rid of them because it was in a building. You'd hear them clicking at night and I'd sleep with the light on, and if I opened a drawer to get something, you'd see them all scurry around. Ewww!

I gots the heebie jeebies.

That is quite possibly the most disgusting thing I've ever heard.. you would HEAR THEM???? *shudders*

[~Laura and Nick~ 5]

Okay.. so i cleaned the apartment from TOP to bottom tonite. Hubby kept asking me "what's gotten into you".. This freaking THREAD that's what!!!!!!!!

omg I lived in a roach infested apartment in Toronto once! It was NASTY! I mean nasty! One time a smaller roach crawled inside my ear and the sound of that will ALWAYS haunt me. I went to the doctor the next day and she got it out and it was very small but it was so rank!

They are nasty! And you're lucky that you only have seen a few, my apartment was INFESTED, like tons! I'd buy a jug of roach killer every week and my bff was the Orkin man and even he couldn't get rid of them because it was in a building. You'd hear them clicking at night and I'd sleep with the light on, and if I opened a drawer to get something, you'd see them all scurry around. Ewww!

I gots the heebie jeebies.

That is quite possibly the most disgusting thing I've ever heard.. you would HEAR THEM???? *shudders*

OMG SPRAILENES!! THAT IS NASTY!

EWWWWWWWWW

That reminds me of that show "Dirty Jobs" where that guy goes around and hows you really gross jobs. He was fumigating a trailer house I think it was, this place was literally CRAWLING...in the draws, thousands of them all over the ceiling, walls, inside everything. I almost barfed.

This is what ours look like, they are the german ones and they are quite small.

Gross, Gross, Gross.

I'm glad we haven't seen anymore...but watch..I'll see one now or something...AH! lol

[Sprailenes 47]

I am even more afraid of centipedes, honestly I have passed out because of those! I scream and I cry and I one time...okay promise not to laugh? One time I called the fire department because there were 3 in my tub, this was back in Canada, living in a smaller town. Of course the fire department told me that they didn't deal with insects

I didn't know what else to do.

[Emancipation 2]

I am even more afraid of centipedes, honestly I have passed out because of those! I scream and I cry and I one time...okay promise not to laugh? One time I called the fire department because there were 3 in my tub, this was back in Canada, living in a smaller town. Of course the fire department told me that they didn't deal with insects

I didn't know what else to do.

you crack me up girl!! Sorry but I did laugh at that one that's great.. good for you for calling.. I have to say those centipedes are pretty disgusting. We have them here they are like 2 inches long and they are almost transparent, which REALLY freaks me out. I scream like a little girl when I see them.. and hubby just rolls his eyes. I'm screaming -"kill it kill it"!! and he's wanting to befriend the thing.. boys suck sometimes.

[~Laura and Nick~ 5]

I am even more afraid of centipedes, honestly I have passed out because of those! I scream and I cry and I one time...okay promise not to laugh? One time I called the fire department because there were 3 in my tub, this was back in Canada, living in a smaller town. Of course the fire department told me that they didn't deal with insects

I didn't know what else to do.

I'm not laughing....honest.....

LMFAO

[Sprailenes 47]

I am even more afraid of centipedes, honestly I have passed out because of those! I scream and I cry and I one time...okay promise not to laugh? One time I called the fire department because there were 3 in my tub, this was back in Canada, living in a smaller town. Of course the fire department told me that they didn't deal with insects

I didn't know what else to do.

you crack me up girl!! Sorry but I did laugh at that one that's great.. good for you for calling.. I have to say those centipedes are pretty disgusting. We have them here they are like 2 inches long and they are almost transparent, which REALLY freaks me out. I scream like a little girl when I see them.. and hubby just rolls his eyes. I'm screaming -"kill it kill it"!! and he's wanting to befriend the thing.. boys suck sometimes.

I know! They are so gross! I mean you just don't need that many legs! Come on now! I can take 8 legs, but any more than that and you're an alien who needs to go back to its planet!

I am even more afraid of centipedes, honestly I have passed out because of those! I scream and I cry and I one time...okay promise not to laugh? One time I called the fire department because there were 3 in my tub, this was back in Canada, living in a smaller town. Of course the fire department told me that they didn't deal with insects

I didn't know what else to do.

I'm not laughing....honest.....

LMFAO

Its okay the lady on the phone laughed too.

[thetreble 19]

Man. Centipedes are definitely my number one bug fear. I lived in a basement apartment for one year and they were EVERYWHERE. They would come up under the floorboards and little holes in the moldings. The worst part was, I could never catch the suckers! Once they are off, they are off!

I agree Sprailenes...which ever part of nature though making those things was a good idea..well they were wrong.

No roaches to report from last night. I'm sorry this thread made you clean so much emancipation! haha I'm sure you were fine before the mass cleaning.

[Emancipation 2]

No roaches to report from last night. I'm sorry this thread made you clean so much emancipation! haha I'm sure you were fine before the mass cleaning.

tee hee. it was good motivation.. honestly - it's been a long time since a good cleaning was done, so it feels good, and its probably for the best to get out those dust bunnies from under the bed. Couldn't take a chance that roaches might like dust bunnies.. and having roaches anywhere's NEAR my bed is something I don't want to think about!!

Did i ever tell you the story about a rat that got trapped in my bedroom? I thought it was my cat being hyper and running around and around my room (the door was shut). i reached out and touched it.. thinking it was my cat.. WRONG.. big ugly old rat.. blech...

[Sprailenes 47]

Treble...

I had never even seen a cockroach till I came to Jersey.

We had (have) two kinds in our apartment. Smaller, almost baby ones and ones that were a little bigger. Nothing scarily huge though, I would vomit.

We weren't infested by any means, I think I've seen maybe 8 total since I moved in over 2 months ago. A couple in the kitchen and like 2 in the bathroom and they only come out at night.

We put those roach trap thingy's out and I cleaned, cleaned, CLEANED, sprayed all the baseboards and every crevice I could see with Raid. We also had the place fumigated. Our landlord has a dude coming pretty much monthly at no cost to us so that helps. I haven't seen one in a few weeks so I'm feeling pretty good. I think it also helped that we got our landlord to fix the leaky faucet in the tub, that was attracting them I think.

We have a cat as well and at night I put his water and food away so that it won't attract any of them. He ate one once...ew! It was by the garbage that I left by the front door to put out the next morning so it must have gotten in and was attracted by that....Mojo ate it...*gag*

I felt soooo humiliated and disgusted when I saw them and Nick was beside himself..the first night we saw one he was like "That's IT, pack up and move" LOL

That's what apartment living is like I guess, cause you never know how clean your neighbours are. I know you live in a house but you never know I guess. I would get your place fumigated and make sure that the dog food is securely sealed up and what not.

Don't worry hon

Cats are a great way to get rid of roaches! My uncle who lives in a Toronto highrise got a cat and basically got rid of a lot of the ones he had in his place. Let your cat eat them, it may be gross but it is honestly a great way to keep the population down.

Plus i hear they're high in protein. hehehe.

[~Laura and Nick~ 5]

Cats are a great way to get rid of roaches! My uncle who lives in a Toronto highrise got a cat and basically got rid of a lot of the ones he had in his place. Let your cat eat them, it may be gross but it is honestly a great way to keep the population down.

Plus i hear they're high in protein. hehehe.

There's not much I could do....lol He was so quick with it...he was like a huge monster...and all I heard was *crunch* *crunch* *crunch*